Native Americans

History is conveyed in many different ways. One of those ways is through textbooks. Textbooks organize and chronologically arrange the history of many different cultures. An assumption of textbooks is that the information that is being read is straight facts and contains evidence of the information that has been predetermined of a culture. What people don’t know is that textbooks are just the authors’ interpretations reflecting on what they have come in encounter with a certain topic in their own personal lives. An example of this is the way Indians are portrayed in several textbooks involving the discovery of America.
One view of Indians was by David S. Muzzey, “History of the American People (1972).” His view of Indians is very prejudice and racist due to his own personal feelings dealing with and towards Indians. For example, in the text Indians are also known as, “copper-colored barbarians or savages.” He called them copper-colored barbarians because of t...